The role of woody biomass in contributing to EU 2020 renewable energy target
The European Union has set ambitious targets of raising the share of EU energy consumption produced from renewable resources from 20% by 2020 to…
Category: Biomass resources
Report explores opportunities and risks of seaweed biofuels in aviation
A new report by Bellona Foundation explores the potential and challenges of using seaweed biofuels in aviation. The report Opportunities and Risks of Seaweed…
Italian Biogasdoneright® a replicable and exportable model
The Italian model for agricultural biogas based on the principles of Biogasdoneright® is becoming an international case study. The state of play of the Italian…
Forest residues for bioenergy with CCS – a tool for global cooling?
Biomass from forestry residues such as thinning and harvest operations is often cited as an underutilized resource that could be mobilized for energy production.…
Long-term use of biogas digestate stores carbon and enhances soil fertility
Every year, intensive agriculture is directly responsible of 10 to 14 percent of emissions of greenhouse gases globally, therefore developing sustainable farming practices is…
World Bioenergy Association publishes global bioenergy statistics 2016
The World Bioenergy Association (WBA) has published the 3rd Global Bioenergy Statistics report, which shows that bioenergy is growing at a promising rate. In terms…
Garbage in, graphite and green hydrogen out
Natural graphite, a high grade of coal, is 1 of 20 raw materials that the EU has identified as critical to its economy and…
Efficient utilization of willow biomass
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Aalto University investigated how willow biomass can be utilised more efficiently. According to the results of this…
Cascading Use of Biomass and Classification of Used Wood
Wood products are typically considered to have lower environmental impacts than equivalent products made out of non-renewable raw materials. Woody biomass is presently used…
Biomass heating resources from Bioenergy4Business
The international project Bioenergy4Business (B4B), funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union, supports and promotes the partial substitution of fossil fuels used for heating with available…